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  • Jane A. Baude, Megan D. Li, Sabrina M. Jackson, Abhishek Sharma, Daniella I. Walter, Ryan S. Stowers. Engineered basement membrane mimetic hydrogels to study mammary epithelial morphogenesis and invasion. bioRxiv. Link
  • Marissa Gionet-Gonzales, Gianna Gathman, Jonah Rosas, Kyle Y Kunisaki, Dominique Gabriele P Inocencio, Niki Hakami, Gregory N Milburn, Angela A Pitenis, Kenneth S Campbell, Beth L Pruitt, Ryan S Stowers. Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology, 2024, 24:265-280. Link
  • G Tansik and RS Stowers. Viscoelastic and phototunable GelMA-alginate hydrogels for 3D cell culture. MRS Advances, 2024. Link
  • P Crandell and RS Stowers. Spatial and Temporal Control of 3D Hydrogel Viscoelasticity through Phototuning. ACS Biomater. Sci. Eng., 2023, 9:6860-6869. Link
  • RS Stowers and O Chaudhuri. Epigenetic regulation of mechanotransduction. Nature Biomedical Engineering, 2021, 5:8-10. Link
  • RS Stowers. Advances in Extracellular Matrix-Mimetic Hydrogels to Guide Stem Cell Fate. Cells, Tissues, Organs. in press. Link
  • IM Tayler and RS Stowers. Engineering hydrogels for personalized disease modeling and regenerative medicine. Acta Biomaterialia, in press. Link
  • JY Lee, S Nam, RS Stowers, O Chaudhuri. Identification of cell context-dependent YAP-associated proteins reveals β1 integrin mediates YAP translocation independently of cell spreading. Scientific Reports, 2019, 9:1-11. Link
  • RS Stowers, A Shcherbina, J Israeli, J Chang, JJ Gruber, S Nam, A Rabiee, MN Teruel, MP Snyder, A Kundaje, O Chaudhuri. Matrix Stiffness Induces a Tumorigenic Phenotype in Mammary Epithelium Through Changes in Chromatin Accessibility. Nature Biomedical Engineering, 2019, 3:1009-1019. *featured as cover article  Link  Nature Reviews Cancer highlight  Stanford Engineering news
  • S Nam, RS Stowers, J Lou, Y Xia, O Chaudhuri. Varying PEG density to control stress relaxation in alginate-PEG hydrogels for 3D cell culture studies. Biomaterials, 2019, 200; 15-24. Link
  • H Lee*, RS Stowers*, O Chaudhuri. Volume Expansion and TRPV4 Activation Regulate Stem Cell Fate in Three-Dimensional Microenvironments. Nature Communications, 2019, 10: 529. *denotes equal contribution. Link
  • J Lou*, RS Stowers*, S Nam, Y Xia, O Chaudhuri. Stress Relaxing Hyaluronic Acid-Collagen Hydrogels Promote Cell Spreading, Fiber Remodeling, and Focal Adhesion Formation in 3D Cell Culture. Biomaterials, 2018, 154; 213-222. *denotes equal contribution Link
  • CM Madl, B LaSavage, RE Dewy, CB Dinh, RS Stowers, M Khariton, KJ Lampe, D Nguyen, O Chaudhuri, A Enejder, SC Heilshorn. Matrix Remodeling Promotes Maintenance of Neural Progenitor Cell Stemness in 3D Hydrogels. Nature Materials, 2017, 16; 1233-1242. Link
  • RS Stowers, SC Allen, K Sanchez, CL Davis, C Van Den Berg, LJ Suggs. Extracellular Matrix Stiffening Induces a Malignant Phenotypic Transition in Breast Epithelial Cells. Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering, 2017, 10; 114-123. Link
  • E Chung, V Rybalko, P Hsieh, S Leal, M Samano, A Willauer, RS Stowers, S Natesan, DO Zamora, RJ Christy, LJ Suggs. Fibrin-based stem cell containing scaffold improves the dynamics of burn wound healing.Wound Repair and Regeneration, 2016, 24; 810-819.
  • RS Stowers, SC Allen, LJ Suggs. Dynamic Photo-Tuning of 3D Hydrogel Stiffness. PNAS, 2015, 112 (7); 1953-1958. Link
  • RS Stowers*, CT Drinnan*, E Chung, LJ Suggs. Mesenchymal Stem Cell Response to TGF-β1 in Both 2D and 3D Environments. Biomaterials Science, 2013, 1; 860-869. *denotes equal contribution. Link
  • RS Stowers and LJ Suggs. Micro and Nanotechnology for Vascular Tissue Engineering. In: Micro and Nanotechnologies in Engineering Stem Cells and Tissues. Ed. M Ramalingam et al. Wiley-IEEE, 2013, 236-260.
  • E Chung, LM Ricles, RS Stowers, SY Nam, SY Emelianov, LJ Suggs. Multifunctional Nanoscale Strategies for Enhancing and Monitoring Blood Vessel Regeneration. Nano Today 2012, 7; 514-531.
  • S Seetharaman, S Natesan, RS Stowers, C Mullens, DG Baer, LJ Suggs, RJ Christy. A PEGylated Fibrin Based Wound Dressing with Antimicrobial and Angiogenic Activity. Acta Biomaterialia, 2010, 7; 2787-96.
  • RS Stowers, JA Callihan, JD Bryers. Optimal conditions for F(ab’)2 antibody fragment production from mouse IgG2a. Journal of Undergraduate Research in Bioengineering, 2009, 8;16-20.